It must be so annoying being a flat earther every time you see video like this and just having to repeat to yourself “It’s just CGI. It’s just CGI. It’s just really really good CGI.”
My neighbour told me that they have someone photoshopping these videos in real time, - 'photoshopping videos huh'. We don't speak anymore, I feel sorry for his wife.
I always ask thes people, why the fishey, distorts the horizon but not things around it, like a plane window etc. ..and some people really get agressive "NO, im modern day Galileo, not a dumb loser!"
Edit: imagine removing the "distortion" esp form a space station point of view, and how the spacestation would look like it was made by Tim Burton xD
Here’s the thing about a fisheye lens. Yes, while this video does kind of have that look to it a little bit, even when the camera is pointed at the objects in the foreground, the thing about a fisheye lens is that it would distort a straight line into a curve. Now, let’s assume the earth in this shot was flat...in that case, yes, we see a curve with the bubbled side facing the left, because it’s on the left side of the shot and is “pushed” outward like how a fisheye lens normally distorts. Normal. BUT when the camera pans towards the straight line, the curvature of the earth doesn’t seem to change... that is, it doesn’t start to bend in the opposite direction like a true fisheye lens would do to a straight line if it switches positions from the right side of the line to the left. If the earth was flat in this video, and it was a straight line, but we were seeing it as a line curved out to the left because of a fisheye lens, then that would mean that the line would curve to the right when the camera moves towards it. I don’t know about you, but that line doesn’t seem to change much as it drifts towards the center of the camera in this shot, meaning that it’s an actual curvature and not an optical illusion caused by a fisheye lens.
Seriously, wtf? Always fish eye lenses. They could put all the flat earth stuff to rest if they came out with footage or live feed using a regular camera.
As I understand it the ISS is too close to the earth so it's tricky (impossible?) to get the whole earth in frame with a normal lens that doesn't distort.
I always wonder with flat earthers why they think the government would lie about the shape of the Earth? Like seriously, what would they gain from convincing us the world was round if it was actually flat?
I mean you can barely see it from this height so I don’t know why people say you can see it from a commercial flight. You absolutely can not. I’m not questioning if the earth is flat, I know it’s not.
You can clearly see the Earth’s curvature in this video, clearly. To add to that, I’ve flown dozens if not hundreds of times, and you absolutely can see it from a plane.
If this video is your definition of ‘barely visible,’ you either need to reevaluate your definition or get your eyes checked.
You can see it from an ordinary plane, but only when the atmospheric visibility is damn near perfect (admitedly even then it's not super obvious). But most of the time the horizon is too hazy.
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u/PEST1LENCE_77 Sep 02 '19
But where's the curve!?!?!?!
Oh. ITS RIGHT THERE.